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Around The Horn

6 November 2017

In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at PhotoPlus Expo, Mark Mann, the dSLR, accessories and group unpublished works.

Derrick Story insists The Reports of dSLR Deaths Are Greatly Exaggerated. "People want pictures to document their lives. Smartphones are the perfect devices to do so," he admits. "But that doesn't mean that I'm giving up my other cameras as a result. I'm not carrying around a toolbox with only a screwdriver in it."

Carolyn Wright reports Robert J. Kasunic, the associate register of copyrights and director of registration policy and practice, says the Group Unpublished Works, which would be limited to five under proposed legislation, "would not be applicable to photographers." For photographers "the number we proposed for a group of unpublished photographs was 750." Maybe they should make that clearer to everyone.

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